レントゲン写 真(しゃしん)

れんとげんしゃしん

noun

X-ray photograph; radiograph

1. X-ray photograph; radiograph; X-ray image

The image produced by an X-ray examination. Everyday Japanese for what a doctor or dentist shows you on the screen or lightbox.

レントゲン写真(しゃしん)を撮(と)った。

I had an X-ray taken.

A small shadow showed up on the X-ray.

Looking at the X-ray, the doctor explained that there was a crack in the bone.

レントゲン comes from the name of Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered X-rays. Japanese kept the discoverer's name where English uses "X-ray."

In conversation the 写真(しゃしん) is often dropped: レントゲンを撮(と)る means both "to take an X-ray" and, loosely, "to have an X-ray done." The verb is 撮(と)る (to photograph), not 取(と)る.

エックス線(せん)写真(しゃしん): X-ray photograph — the technical term, used in medical and engineering writing
CT: CT scan — cross-sectional imaging, a different examination

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Added 2026.7.28 6:18 · Revised 2026.9.6 9:21

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